"What is it that will draw out more than the intellect has drawn out so far?  It's your state of receptivity. It determines the amount of power that flows into you. Stated another way, it is letting go of your reservations."

"Q. Then if you have a conscious wish and you're trying to accomplish something and can't do it, it's because you have a subconscious habit that is blocking you. Well how do you get rid of that subconscious wish that is blocking you?
A. Lester: By making the conscious wish stronger. Or, by pulling up the unconscious wish to the contrary and looking at it. When you see it, you automatically let go of it; you won't hold it there anymore."

"It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation, and expansion. it is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it."

" Every step forward you make now is forever." 

"Gratefulness is a very joyous state.  Want to be always happy? Maintain a state of gratitude."

"Self observation is watching everything that goes on, both within yourself and outside. It's constantly watching thoughts and feelings. It's being aware of your body, your hands and feet, of moving or resting. It's being aware of the breeze, the temperature, your weight in the chair or on the ground as you walk,  the sky, the clouds, the birds, the sounds, what your eyes are seeing, what you are tasting, the scent in the air. It's being aware of each movement of thought,  each movement of feeling, and each bodily movement. It's being fully awake to what is going on inside and outside, and it is being aware of being aware. It's being awake that all of it---all that is going on inwardly and outwardly--- is to the mind, an out-picturing of the mind...and to whom is that mind?" And who am I?

"Square all with Love."

"When thoughts arise, one should not pursue them , but should inquire: 'To whom do they arise?' It does not matter how many thoughts arise. As each thought arises, one should inquire with diligence, "To whom has this thought arisen?" The answer that would emerge would be 'to me.' Thereupon if one inquires? 'Who am I?' the mind will go back to its source; and the thought that arose will become quiescent.  With repeated practice in this manner, the mind will develop the skill to stay in its source."

"If only they go deeply into the fact of being and discover the vastness and the glory to which the "I am" is the door, and cross the door and go beyond, their life will be full of happiness and light."

"Vow that you will never again please anyone so that he or she

will be pleased with you. Succeed in this and you will hear another

chain drop."

"Bad thoughts make bad dreams and good thoughts make good dreams. And if you have no thoughts you don't dream at all."

May all beings be happy, content and fulfilled
May all beings be healed and whole
May all beings have whatever they want and need
May all beings be protected, safe and fear free
May all beings be awakened and liberated 
May all beings have peace in this world and in this universe.

"I strongly recommend taking time out for releasing on these things all day, every day. Never should a day go by without doing this. Do it constantly. Get with it totally in a quiet spot until is sucks you in more and more until you let go of the world pull. Getting quiet enough, the infinite part of you takes over and you go all the way. You reach a place where you feel helpless because it's effortless. Keep that up and you'll effortlessly be sucked right into your infinity."

"One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears."

"You are either in this hall right now at New Life Foundation or

you hearing the talk somewhere else, but in either case I want you

to bring yourself together, come back to this very present moment

forgetting the days experiences and become very alert and aware of

a certain sentence I will give you shortly.

Because I want you to first hear this sentence and then at

the same time you are hearing it I want your attention to

also be directed toward your own mental and emotional

perhaps reaction to it.

But I want that to be a second by second spiritual habit

with you to always know what is going on in your mind,

know where your body is. But for now I want you to come

wide awake so when I give you these sentences you’ll be

able to discern the thoughts and feelings and reactions

that it aroused.

And once you see what these responses are you're not to

try to judge them in any way, you're no to call them good

bad or indifferent. You're to simply know that these reaction

thoughts came to you and then you to allow them to go away,

to disappear from your mind. They will appear very swiftly

when I give you this sentence and you're to be oh, so wide

awake so that you know what ever it was that you reacted

to it. And then you to let it go meanwhile you have learned

something about your own internal reactions and machineries,

which is all apart of authentic spiritual self-knowledge.

Alright, I'm going to give you the sentence now and you're to

not only pay attention to me, but you to pay attention to what

you thought as a result of hearing the sentence which is this:

_You must absolutely destroy what is working absolutely to

destroy you_."

      from a talk given 7/30/1989

 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 28, talk 682, track 3

"The only real purpose of being here on this earth is to learn, to re-remember, our original natural state of of totality, of complete freedom and no limitation."

"if the world is real to you, you are all the time validating ego."

"You are causing everything around you, even when someone else seems to be doing it. When you realize this you will take responsibility for everything."

"There is immediate realization of the Self the moment one sees the unreality of the world"

"The whole world is just a mere thought. Think on that!"

"The world is a play-act. You have written, in your imaginative mind, the script, the acts, and the actors, and yourself as one of the actors. Recognize this and dwell in your authorship."

"It is the doorway to the infinite when you go inward.  When you go outward it is the doorway to limitation."

"As long as you are engrossed in the world, you are unable to know yourself. To know yourself,  turn away your attention from the world and turn it within."

"Be aware of being conscious and seek the source of that consciousness."

"...there's no difference between the spiritual and the material when you see it. The material being just an out projecting of our minds, into what we call the universe and the world, and many bodies.


"And when we see it's just an out projecting of our minds, it's just a picture out there that we have created,  we can very easily change it instantly." 

Take on the consciousness of the million rather than the one dollar bill. 

"Whether you are aware of it or not, everyone is controlling matter all the time.  Whether one wants to be a demonstrator or not he(she) is. It is impossible to not be a creator all the time. Everyone is creating every day.  We're not aware of it because we just don't look at it. Every thought, every single thought materializes in the physical world.  It's impossible to have a thought that will not materialize, except that we reverse it. If we say the opposite right after we have a thought with equal strength, we  just neutralize it. But any thought not reversed or neutralized, will materialize  in the future if not immediately. So this thing of demonstration that we're all trying so hard to do, we're doing all the time, unaware of the fact that we're doing it. All we need to do is to consciously direct it, and that we call demonstration.  Everything that everyone has in life is a demonstration. It couldn't come into your experience had you not had a thought it at some time prior. If you want to know what your sum total  thinkingness is, it's exactly determined by what's around you, what you have. That's your demonstration.